Dieter Spath

Dieter Spath

Head of Institute Fraunhofer IAO and IAT University of Stuttgart

Prof. Dr. Dieter Spath
Head of Institute Fraunhofer IAO and IAT University of Stuttgart
Born: 23. April 1952 in Lichtenau, Kreis Ansbach, married, two children



1971-1975

Studying mechanical engineering, faculty of production science and manufacturing at the Technical University of Munich

1976-1981

Assistant lecturer at the Institute for Machine Tools and Management Science

1981

Ph.D. Influencing Factors Limiting the Efficiency of Metal Band-Saw Machines

Industrial Activity

1981
Entering KASTO-enterprises

1985

Executive manager for electrical engineering, EDP organization and sales as well as Chairman of Board of the American subsidiary KASTO Racine Inc.

1988

Managing Director for KASTO-enterprises

Academic Activity

1992
Appointment to the post of full professor at the University Karlsruhe (TH), Institute for Machine Tools and Production Science

1996 - 1998

Dean of the faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Karlsruhe (TH)

1996 - 2001

Member of the senate and the approval committee for collaborative research centers of the DFG (German Research Foundation) 


1999

Call of the Technical University of Munich, Institute for Machine Tools and Management Science (iwb), Succession Professor Milberg (rejected)

2002

Appointment to the head of the Institute for Human Factors and Technology Management (IAT), University Stuttgart and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO) 


2003

Elected as member of acatech- German Academy of Science and Engineering acatech 


2008 -2009

Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Design, Production Engineering and Automotive Engineering, University Stuttgart

Since 2009

Vice President of acatech - Council for Technical Sciences of the Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, Board Member

Selection of Memberhips and Honors

  • acatech - Council for Technical Sciences of the Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, Vice president
  • e-mobil Baden-Württemberg, Beiratsmitglied
  • Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Produktentwicklung WiGeP – Berliner Kreis & WGMK
  • CIRP International Institution for Production Engineering Research, Fellow
  • Georg Schlesinger Prize, Board of Trustees
  • Hochschulgruppe Arbeits- und Betriebsorganisation HAB
  • IFPR International Foundation of Production Research, Secretary General, Past President
  • Schlesinger Minerva Laboratory, Technion/Haifa, Advisory Council
  • WGP German Academic Society for Production Engineering
  • DFG-Fachkollegium Produktionstechnik
 
  • Honorary doctorate from TU Munich
  • Medal of Merit TU Gdansk
  • Order of the Federal Republic of Germany, medal and ribbon, awarded for outstanding services to German science, industry and society